On November 6th, Eagle Rock Entertainment will issue the simultaneous release of The Ritchie Blackmore Story on DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Formats and a deluxe 2DVD+2CD edition.
 
Without a doubt one of the all-time great guitar players, Ritchie Blackmore has always been one to let his music do the talking. In this documentary film, Blackmore has granted fans extraordinary access, resulting in a truly revealing, in-depth look into his life and career.
 
From his pop roots with The Outlaws and his many session recordings in the sixties, through defining hard rock with Deep Purple and Rainbow in the seventies and eighties, to the renaissance rock of Blackmore’s Night, Ritchie has proved that he is a master of the guitar across a multitude of styles. For the first time, The Ritchie Blackmore Story tells the story of his remarkable career through extensive specially recorded new interviews with Ritchie himself plus contributions from many of his colleagues and admirers including: Brian May, Glenn Hughes, Lars Ulrich, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani, the late Jon Lord, David Coverdale, Gene Simmons, Joe Lynn Turner, Steve Vai, Graham Bonnet and Ian Anderson.  The Bonus Features on this release offer up over 40 minutes of additional interviews with Ritchie Blackmore and his peers.
 
The amazing Deluxe Edition contains the DVD of The Ritchie Blackmore Story in addition to the Live In Tokyo DVD and 2CDs, all contained in a 60 page 12” x 12” hardback photobook with a black and silver front cover. Live In Tokyo is the first official DVD & CD release of the 1984 concert by Rainbow from Tokyo’s famous Budokan. It was to be the last Rainbow concert before Ritchie Blackmore & Roger Glover went on to reform Deep Purple.
 
The Ritchie Blackmore Story contains clips from many of his classic tracks with Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore’s Night including: “Smoke On The Water,” “Highway Star,” “Since You’ve Been Gone,” “Wring That Neck,” “Space Truckin’,” “All Night Long,” “Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll,” “Hush,” “Black Night,” “Child In Time,” “Mistreated,” “Burn,” “Man On The Silver Mountain,” “I Surrender,” “Perfect Strangers,” “Play Minstrel Play,” “Renaissance Faire,” “Fires At Midnight” and many more.
 
Quite simply The Ritchie Blackmore Story is a look into the life and career of the mysterious “Man in Black”, an introspective look at a true guitar legend.

Tracklisting (Live In Tokyo Disc – Deluxe Edition Only):
 
(CD Disc 1)
Intro Medley
“Spotlight Kid”  
“Miss Mistreated”  
“I Surrender”  
“Can’t Happen Here”  
“Catch The Rainbow”  
“Power”  
Keyboard Solo  
“Street Of Dreams”  
“Fool For The Night”  
“Difficult To Cure (Beethoven’s Ninth)”  
Guitar Solo  
Drum Solo  
 
(CD Disc 2)
“Blues”  
Medley: “Stranded” / “Hey Joe”  
“Death Alley Driver”  
“Fire Dance”
“Maybe Next Time”  
Medley: “All Night Long” / “Woman From Tokyo”  
“Lazy”
“Since You’ve Been Gone”  
“Smoke On The Water”

Trailer:

Richie Blackmore will regroup with members of Rainbow and Deep Purple for four shows next year in Europe. For now he’s concentrating on Blackmore’s Night, the band will release their new album, All Our Yesterdays, on September 18th.

“I am doing four dates in June, which will be all rock," Blackmore tells Noisey. "I have the band basically together and it will be [the best of] Rainbow and Deep Purple. It’s just having fun but it’s only four dates in Europe. I don’t want to do anymore because I take what I’m doing now much more seriously.”

Read more at Noisey.

Due for release on September 18th is All Our Yesterdays, the 10th studio album from Blackmore’s Night. Listen to the new track “Moonlight Shadow”, streaming below.

All Our Yesterdays will be released on a variety of formats: CD, CD/DVD, 2LP, Box Set and Digital. Pre-orders for the CD, CD/DVD and Digital versions are available on Amazon.com and iTunes.

Tracklisting:

“All Our Yesterdays”
“Allan Yn N Fan”
“Darker Shade Of Black”
“Long Long Time”
“Moonlight Shadow”
“I Got You Babe”
“The Other Side”
“Queen's Lament”
“Where Are We Going From Here”
“Will O' The Wisp”
“Earth Wind And Sky”
“Coming Home”

“Moonlight Shadow”:

“All Our Yesterdays” video:

 "The Other Side":

Details:

* CD/DVD Deluxe edition includes the full album plus a DVD with music videos for "All Our Yesterdays” and “Will O’ The Wisp,” plus an extensive interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night on the making of the new album.
* 2LP vinyl edition with a gatefold sleeve
* Box Set Limited Collector’s edition includes CD/DVD deluxe edition, 2LP, tshirt (L size only), poster, lithograph

Blackmore’s Night vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Candice Night says, “There’s a theme to All Our Yesterdays’ chosen songs that focuses on the attitude of living in the present, and looking toward the future, because we are, indeed, enriched by our past. My main theme and inspiration has always been nature and folklore from around the world.”

Candice Night and Ritchie Blackmore’s lives and creative journeys have taken them through different characters and songs from a variety of times in history. That is part of the attitude in the song "Where Are We Going from Here,” about a traveling minstrel’s journey through life and age.

The title track (and also the first single and video), “All Our Yesterdays” echoes the sounds of Candice’s Russian roots, while a new song written by Germany’s George Hesse is an old-style, fiddle-driven instrumental with the Welsh title “Allan yn y Fan” (meaning “Out There”). Ritchie’s heritage includes family from Wales.

The album also includes stunning instrumentals: the acoustic guitar piece, “Queen’s Lament” and the dramatic “The Darker Shade of Black” that spotlights violin and guitar. Elsewhere on the recording, “Earth Wind and Sky” is a delicate ode to nature. “The Other Side,” a latter-day folk dance joins two jigs that Candice sings: “Coming Home” and the supernatural-themed, “Will o’ The Wisp”.

All Our Yesterdays gets further inspiration from Candace and Ritchie’s home town, where they take part in community folk nights during which the neighbours share guitars and songs, and sing melodies that have come from a variety of times in their own history. That’s how they fell in love with songs of various radio formats of years gone by. The album includes  the Linda Ronstadt hit “Long Long Time” (penned by Gary White); the Mike Oldfield song, “Moonlight Shadow”, and an inspiring Maypole Dance treatment of Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe”.

Blackmore’s Night is a true musical and spiritual collaboration between vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Candice Night and her husband, legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. The two met in 1989 when Deep Purple challenged Candice’s then radio station to a charity soccer match.  In 1993 she sang on Rainbow’s Difficult To Cure tour. They co-wrote four songs for Rainbow’s Stranger In Us All and in 1997 they formed Blackmore’s Night; they continue to play Faire Festivals all over the world.